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Cannot get results from ipmi-sel under Telegraf #1

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hgfischer opened this issue Dec 4, 2017 · 0 comments

hgfischer commented Dec 4, 2017

ipmi-sel needs to run as root to be able to return results.

syscall.Setuid() is not possible under Linux, so we have two choices:

find how ipmi-sel gets IPMI logs and make adjustments to allow it to read logs with a different username
use sudo to call ipmi-sel

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